Partner Engineer

Open to remote candidates in the USA

Interested in working on cutting-edge blockchain technology and creating equitable access to the global financial system? Since 2014, the mission-driven team at the Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) has helped fuel the growth and utility of the Stellar blockchain network. Developers and companies around the world build on it, and the SDF team is expanding to support the rapidly growing and changing Stellar ecosystem. 

We are looking for engineers to join our Partner Engineering Team. This is a hybrid role where you will leverage your hands on engineering skills and experience building products that enable the success of our partners while playing a significant role working with our internal Engineering and Product teams. You will own the overall technical relationship with current and prospective ecosystem partners. SDF’s partners span globally and are some of the most innovative software and financial companies.  

In this role, you will:

• Become an expert on the Stellar network’s native functionality and system architecture.
• Work closely with our strategic partners to enable their success deploying and scaling Stellar infrastructure.
• Identify patterns in developer and partner needs and design solutions to help increase adoption.
• Work closely with our internal Engineering, Product, and Partnerships teams to support initiatives that improve the network’s scalability and decentralization.
• Engage with our community of open source developers and partners on projects that encompass many different frameworks, languages, and ideas.
• Work with partners to deliver projects, remotely, in a hands-on development role driving acting as their trusted advisor.
• Identify and communicate technical solutions that address gaps or opportunities for improvement with our existing products.
• Communicate learnings and define product requirements internally to help improve the SDF’s ecosystem of products and standards as they evolve in a rapidly changing landscape.
• Drive the partner onboarding and implementation processes.

You have:

• 3+ years of hands-on backend engineering experience designing, deploying, and maintaining system architectures in production.
• 1+ years experience engaging with customer or partner organizations to educate and design software or financial systems.
• Ability to participate in technical discussions and explain technical details to non-technical people.
• Experience working on problems focused on large scale distributed systems, architecture, and infrastructure. 
• Comfortability creating visualizations of complex data, system, and application architectures.
• Strong written and oral communication skills used to develop excellent technical documentation.
• Proficiency with at least one programming language such as Go, Java, C++, Python, or similar.
• Experience building deep technical relationships with partners and acting as their trusted advisor to help them understand our products and capabilities.
• The ability to be an advocate for partners internally, keeping their needs front and center.

Bonus Points if:

• Practical experience working with blockchain networks, ideally on deploying, scaling, and decentralizing these systems.
• Open source project contributor.
• You have experience designing innovative blockchain solutions for external partners’  success.
• Experience working in FinTech (mobile banking, payments, deposits, transactions, etc)

We offer competitive pay with a base salary range for this position of $145,000 - $165,000 depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and location. In addition, we offer lumen-denominated grants along with the following perks and benefits: